Every time we have a school break, weI try to bring the children out on a Field Trip. Sometimes it is just to the pool or the library. This week, we decided to bring them to Hay Dairies.

But we almost didn't make it as it poured heavily as we started off at 8:30am! But thankfully, the skies cleared and we managed to have an enjoyable outing.

If you go between 9 and 11am, you get to see the goats being milked. The children actually noticed that the goats being milked had extremely swollen udders - ouch?! As we watched, we could see the udders slowly deflating! I wondered if the goats felt pain with such swollen udders! And I am so glad I haven't had to pump milk for my babies for the past 7 years! Lol!

It was interesting to me to see how well-trained the goats were. They knew how to position their heads into the slats to eat while they were milked and they knew exactly when and how to duck their heads out of the slats when they heard the click of the slats being unlocked for them!

The kids, er I mean the children, had a blast feeding the goats. They spent close to 45 minutes just feeding and playing with the animals! And they each even had a favourite goat by the time they were done feeding them!

Now I am soooo not an animal person so I got bored after a while and left to nurse my own baby while the children continued playing with the goats. 

Some time ago, I used to buy goat milk from Hay Dairies for my oldest dd to drink as it was supposed to help heal eczema. No, it didn't work and I sure did not like the taste or smell of goat milk! (I don't eat lamb or mutton either!) Ooh! And if you should burp after drinking it..........................

But the children loved it and we bought some to take home to drink. They actually chose to drink the milk as it was instead of drinking the chocoloate flavoured one!

I suppose we could have ventured out further and visited the other farms around the area but dh had a meeting to run off to and the baby was grumpy since she was sick so we left for lunch shortly after.

We shall be planning to trip to visit Qian Hu Fish Farm next since I hear that the children can get to fish (for a fee) while adults can get their feet exfoliated by dipping their feet into a foot bath of sorts while the fish nibble off dead skin! Is that cool or what!

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